AQW 45155/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 28/04/2015
Answered On Date: 12/05/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education whether the number of groups in receipt of his Department's Early Years Fund has remained the same in each of the last five years.

Answer:

The Early Years Fund is administered by Early Years – the Organisation for Young Children (EYO) on DE’s behalf. According to monitoring information supplied to DE by EYO, the number of recipients of the Fund in each of the last five years is as detailed in the table below.

Year	Number of recipients
2010-11	175
2011-12	173
2012-13	166
2013-14	159
2014-15	153